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Hello, My name is Mellody Davis and here is my True Testimony: The Power of the Holy Spirit The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. John 3:8. The Holy Spirit is so powerful it states in 1Corinthians 2:4 My message and preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. I would like to...

During the 9/11 congressional hearings a year ago, there was a common question that the commissioners seemed to enjoy asking: Why was the U.S. not on “war footing” when the 9/11 attack occurred? If the government truly wanted to seek all information regarding intelligence failures leading up to 9/11, the Commission should have asked one of its own members about the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 171 lives a decade ago on April 19, 1995. In one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of the U.S., the federal government purposely avoided investigating incriminating evidence of a plot that pointed...

SACRAMENTO - As the California Charter Academy grew into the state's largest charter school, it developed close ties to various local and state politicians who accepted campaign contributions and pushed the academy's political interests, according to a state audit released Thursday. Between 1999 and its collapse last summer, the Victorville-based school placed members of a tightly woven band of Republican politicians in California's High Desert on boards and gave them jobs and money. In many cases, they responded. In 2003, Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster, carried a resolution for the California Charter Academy that urged state lawmakers to support adult education...

Settled jurisprudence was fairly settled against prior restraints on free speech, except for "shouting fire in a crowded theater" immediate causes of grave harm. Then, along came the McCain-Feingold electoral reforms. McCain-Feingold's supposedly greater interest of restricting the role of big money in campaigns allowed legal and donor restrictions on campaigning. The media is exempt from restrictions. Critics of McCain-Feingold called it an incumbent protection act to reduce the resources of challengers. Realists said McCain-Feingold would result in contributions flowing some way anyway. Opponents of McCain-Feingold warned it restricted free speech, and this could increase. If free speech is surrendered...

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Is this normal day to day business for APmynews? Their report linked above features news of the big day, roughly even handed, but the sponsored links down the page "from google" are to the Carnegie pinkos, an anti-bush rant by commie in chief Chompsky and one other re Australia (google looks up a list according to my IP - therefore yours in the states will be way different). What do you get as a link? similar? So google does this all the time? ick!

In a Nov. 12 Orange Grove column ["Beware of stealth socialism"], I discussed the problems created when government pension funds are invested in private companies. The Register has since highlighted a heretofore-unconsidered problem - political patronage. A media group sued CalPERS to force it to divulge money-management fees it paid to financial companies. CalPERS stonewalled, and for good reason. The information it finally released showed it paid Yucaipa Cos. $8.6 million to manage a reported $50 million. If these numbers are correct, that's a whopping 17 percent fee, or about 17 times higher than what reputable mutual finds charge. The...

DOes anyone else have problems when clicking on the subject lines to a new thread?? So many times, i have to "copy the shortcut" then paste it in the address line to get to the thread. Am I the only one who clicks away on a new thread and get's nothing??

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

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Frédéric Desagneaux, consul general of France for San Francisco, is not happy with the light being shown on his country’s involvement with U.N. corruption in Iraq. Poor thing. Yesterday, the independent committee investigating corruption in the U.N.’s “oil-for-food” program for Iraq made public the names of 3,545 companies that sold goods to Saddam. Also published were the names of 248 companies which received Iraqi oil under the program. Through oil-for-food, Saddam stole “$10.1 billion through oil smuggling and kickbacks from suppliers.” Leave it to the U.N. to pull off one of the biggest scandals in world history. Evidence is emerging...

October 21, 2004WHAT'S NEXTFor Missing Web Pages, a Department of Lost and Found By ANNE EISENBERG HE Web may be an information highway much of the time, but it turns into a cul-de-sac whenever a click leads to a message that the U.R.L. you requested could not be found.Now a team of university students working as summer interns at an I.B.M. laboratory has devised a prototype for software designed to fix the problem of broken links. The tool checks links between pages to see if they are functioning properly, and if not, searches for the correct pages.Andrew Flegg, a...

Why do you talking heads that get on television (I'm watching CNN now) completely let it go by when Bush haters claim that there "were not links" between Saddam and Al-Qaeda? Get your facts straight please! And hammer them. Learn about Salam Pak! Bring it up! And when they try to tell you that Rumsfeld says their are no links... Please explain to them that they are twisting his words just like the newspaper headlines in the MSM do on a daily basis. Here's the list of what Rumsfeld carries in his pocket to clarify what the CIA believes...

Sean Penn Links Dark Nixon Film to Anger with Bush 2 hours, 11 minutes ago By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - His sunglasses were heavy and so was the theme when Sean Penn met the press at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday after screening a dark look at the Nixon era that unleashed a new wave of Oscar buzz about Penn's performance. "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" traces the meltdown of Samuel Bicke, a failed husband and salesman and self-described "grain of sand" whose mounting frustrations drive him to make an unsuccessful attempt to hijack a jetliner and...

WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) sought to link the Iraq (news - web sites) war to U.S. economic woes on Wednesday, calling President Bush (news - web sites)'s move against Baghdad a "catastrophic choice" that so far has drained $200 billion in needed resources at home. Democrats also raised fresh questions about Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard service. "We know that John Kerry was in Vietnam," said Democratic Party chief Terry McAuliffe in a conference call with reporters. "My question, Mr. President, is where were you, Sir?" His comments came as Democrats tried to turn the...

I found some interesting websites. check them out: http://www.protestwarrior.com/ http://www.boycottliberalism.com/ http://www.electionprojection.com/ on protest warrior, check out the "Operation Halliburton Defense Force" http://hq.protestwarrior.com/?page=/featured/Dallas/halliburton_defense_force.php good stuff

EDMONTON JOURNAL, p. A14 Sunday 5 September 2004 Lorne Gunter Terrorists linked by blood on their hands The Islambouli Brigades were very clear. Within hours of the calamitous, horrific end to the hostage-taking Friday at Middle School No. 1 in Beslan, in the Russian Caucasus's republic of North Ossetia, the radical Islamic terror group (an offshoot of al-Qaeda) posted a message to the Internet disavowing any involvement. "Although we bless the efforts of our brothers in defending their honour and their religion, (we) announce that we have no relationship with any cell of the cells that carried out the Ossetia...

Oil and gas giant ChevronTexaco used lobbyists, attorneys and trade organizations to influence Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to reorganize state government. To read the reports from the California Performance Review that the company helped shape visit the following sites: - CPR report on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission: http://www.report.cpr.ca.gov/cprrpt/issrec/res/res30.htm This chapter calls for the limiting the activities of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. That agency, which issues permits for dredging and sand mining in the Bay Area, oversees activities related to Chevron's Richmond refinery. Chevron complaints that the commission is overstepping its authority,...

Data links early settlers to African diaspora DIFFERENT STORIES: While genetic research puts this land on a main route of early humans' dispersion, anthropologists tie early settlements to the Pearl River Delta By Wang Hsiao-wen STAFF REPORTER Sunday, Aug 29, 2004,Page 2 Long before Portuguese sailors put "Formosa" on the world map, and long before Chinese people crossed the dark current to set up home here, this land was inhabited by Austronesian Aborigines for thousands of years. Multigenetic analysis reveals that Austronesian tribes arrived as early as 14,000 years ago. According to Marie Lin (ªL¶ý²ú), who conducted the research as...